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Modular flooring system for an animal housing
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Inventors: Moreau, Pierre A.; Real, W. James;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Poon; Peter M.
Assistant Examiner: Abbott; Yvonne
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Cassan; Lynn S.
A modular flooring system for an animal housing is provided, the flooring being particularly suited to pig housings due to the structure of the flooring which minimizes spacings in which manure, and its attendant bacteria, could collect. A plurality of interconnecting interior and straight-edge panels are provided and a plurality of panel support units each unit comprising a device for fixing the unit to a substrate of the housing and a device for engaging at least one panel to support the panel over the substrate. The panels each have a rectangular frame having side, top and bottom members and a plurality of spaced horizontal and vertical members extending between the side and top and bottom members of the frame, respectively, forming a plurality of horizontal slots. Each side member comprises means for coupling the panel to an adjacent panel. In the interior panels the outer configurations of the top and bottom members are mirror images and the interior panels are rotatable. In the straight-edge panels the top members thereof are smooth and provide a straight-edge for abutment with a wall of the housing. The top and bottom members of the interior panels and bottom members of the straight-edge panels each comprise a plurality of horizontally extending extension members spaced over the length thereof. The coupling member of the panels couples horizontally adjacent panels and the extension members of vertically adjacent panels matingly interconnect. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION In accordance with the present invention there is provided a modular flooring apparatus for an animal housing having walls and a substrate.
A plurality of interior flooring panels each comprise a rectangular frame and a plurality of spaced horizontal and vertical members extending between side and top and bottom members of said frame, respectively, forming a plurality of horizontal slots.
The side members may be configured as mirror images of each other and the top and bottom members may also be configured as mirror images.
Each side member comprises means for coupling the panel to an adjacent like panel.
In the preferred embodiment the coupling means is provided by a locking arm extending from the interior face of the side member and an aperture spaced from the locking arm through the interior of the side member.
The top and bottom members each comprise a plurality of spaced horizontally extending extension members over the length thereof.
A plurality of straight-edge flooring panels each comprise a rectangular frame having the same outer dimensions as the frame of the interior flooring panel.
A plurality of spaced horizontal and vertical members extend between side and top and bottom members of said frame, respectively, forming a plurality of horizontal slots.
As for the interior panel each side member comprises coupling means which preferably comprises a locking arm extending from the interior face of the side member and an aperture spaced from the locking arm through the interior of the side member.
The bottom member comprises a plurality of spaced horizontally extending extension members over the length thereof.
The top member is generally smooth and provides a straight-edge for abutment with a wall of the housing.
A plurality of panel support units each comprise means for fixing the unit to a substrate of the housing and means for engaging at least one panel to support the panel over the substrate.
The coupling means of the side members of the panels couple horizontally adjacent panels whereby, in the preferred embodiment, the locking arms engage the apertures of horizontally adjacent panels
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